Price Changes Effective Today

Postal Service price changes are effective today, Sunday, January 26.

The changes include adjustments to Mailing Services and Shipping Services products.

Here are the old and new prices:

• First-Class Mail letters (1 ounce): 55 cents (no change)
• First-Class Mail letters (additional ounces): 15 cents (no change)
• First-Class Mail letters (metered 1 ounce): 50 cents (no change)
• First-Class Mail outbound international letters (1 ounce): $1.15 (old), $1.20 (new)
• First-Class Mail single-piece flats (1 ounce): $1 (no change)
• First-Class Mail single-piece flats and presort flats (additional ounces): 15 cents (old), 20 cents (new)
• First-Class Mail domestic postcard stamps: 35 cents (no change)

• Priority Mail small flat-rate box: $7.90 (old), $8.30 (new)
• Priority Mail medium flat-rate box: $14.35 (old), $15.05 (new)
• Priority Mail large flat-rate box: $19.95 (old), $21.10 (new)
• Priority Mail Army/Air Post Office and Fleet Post Office large flat-rate box: $18.45 (old), $19.60 (new)
• Priority Mail regular flat-rate envelope: $7.35 (old), $7.75 (new)
• Priority Mail legal flat-rate envelope: $7.65 (old), $8.05 (new)
• Priority Mail padded flat-rate envelope: $8 (old), $8.40 (new)

Mailing Services price increases are capped by the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Overall, Mailing Services product prices rose by approximately 1.7 percent.

Shipping Services prices are adjusted according to market conditions and vary by product. For example, Priority Mail Express prices increased 3.5 percent, while Priority Mail prices increased 4.1 percent, on average.